Google has had a Indic Transliteration page for quite a while, in fact it is even integrated into Orkut. Microsoft India, has finally come out with it’s own edition of a desktop & web version for Indic transliteration. It supports 6 Indian languages & the very interesting part about the web version is that it supports most of the commonly used browsers and . The following are the languages supported:

Bengali

Hindi

Kannada

Malayalam

Tamil

Telugu

There are 3 ways of using this:

1. A web version (bookmarklet):

Using the web version is very simple, all you need to do is add the bookmarklet for your preferred language to your browser and when you want to type in the Indic language, click on the bookmarklet and you’ll get an icon (marked in Red). Start typing and when you press ‘Space’ the word will converted, just like how Google’s version works. Screen shot: